Tag: Ruby Wax
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Girls On Top
As early as 1985, Jennifer Saunders was starring in not one, but two prime time sitcoms on the main channels. On BBC One, she played multiple characters in Ben Elton’s Happy Families, and during the same few weeks, she was over on ITV in Girls On Top. Here’s Tony Pratt’s patronising preview write up in…
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd…
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Ruby Waxes Cars
I was thinking all day today, trying to remember if Ruby Wax had ever done any adverts. Then I remembered her stewardship of the Vauxhall Corsa promo, with a perfectly matched slogan for her and the car. There was more than one, so it must have been succesful. She also did a campaign for Ryvita.
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Waxing Lyrical
Exackerly. This is a great interview of a random woman that Ruby Wax met on a coach for her 1990 BBC Two series Hit & Run. I wish I could find more of this series.
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For 4 Tonight
A title that’s a mouthful, and difficult to get your tongue around, For 4 Tonight was a Channel 4 show, created by Ruby Wax, starring George Irving and Rachel Bell. It aired on the network in the autumn of 1983, and was directed by Michael Dolenz (yes, that one). Stay tuned for the disconcerting 80s…
